The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-22
THE CREME DE- la CREME
OF NEW YORK SOCIETY APPEARS
In A BALLET
At the Academy OF Music and at a
Large Hall on Staten
Island.
ALL FOR SWEET CHARITYS
SAKE, YOU KNOW.
A Row at TuxedO-The jersey LILY
On the PrOmenade-The Sam
uels Family.
lcoRREsroxpESoE oy TEE APPEAL

mess several years ago the maidens
Of our warranted best society ap.
peared in peasantry dances before az
many spectators as the Academy OF
Music would hold. The exploit for
charity caused much comment, and
it has not since been repeated in
town. But sedulously chosen com
pany went over to Staten Island the
other night, and performed in still
more elaborate amateur ballet. A
skilled master had drilled them for
weeks, costumer had fitted them
with the requisite dresses to repre-
sent milkmaids, Swedes, gipsys, Hun
garians, Italians and lawn tennis
queens. The very flower and pride
OF swelldom were contained in this
exclusive troupe OF volunteers
and they really made grace
full show. EacbsH separate
group had chaperone, who came
out on the floor with them, and
stood dignifedly by while they
danced A thousand spectators
gazed and applauded while the mer-
ry girls tripped the characteristic
measures. The theatrical manager
who could command that ballet
would make a fortune indeed. But
high society, of course, will only in
dulge in that sort of thing for chart
ty. There is jolly row at Tuxedo
park over the question of letting any
actress so much as touch that exclu-
sive resort with the hem of her gar
ments. Patti was invited to visit
the Hewitts at Tuxedo. The Hew-
etts are very musical and Patti
would have accepted the opportuni-
ty to mix, ever so gingerly, with the
swells, but when the mayor wrote to
p. Lorillard, the progenitor and
controller of Tuxedo, saying that
he supposed no objection
would be made, Mr.. Lorillard re-
piled that he advised the abandon
ment of the idea. Several actresses
have been similarly shut out. In
the case of Mrs. Langtry the exclu-
sion was officially communicated to a
gentleman who meant to take her
there. Now impends the moment
tous issue what to do about Mrs.
James Brown Potter. Eccentric
though she may be, her morals are
above reproach; her family connee-
tons are as grand as anybody's in
town and, moreover, she owns a cot
tage at Tuxedo. But she is an
actress-not much of one, per-
haps, but enough to count. Discus
sion is brisk as to whether she shall
be barred out.
The eyes of New York beauty are
just now filed by sights of athletic
feats. Such struggles used to be con-
sidered too rude for ladies to look at,
but this spring scarcely week passes
without its muscular entertainment.
attended by fashionable women. This
is because the gallant militia SOL
diers have gone into the sport. The
various regiments of New York and
Brooklyn have armories whose
drill halls are large enough for
contests, and almost all have
athletic associations. In arranging
for these games track as
large size as possible is marked out
by paint line on the floor. The
outer edge is guarded by lawn tennis
nets, temporary ratings or benches,
and outside of that, on the main
floor, rows of chairs are arranged for
the spectators, who are also accom-
modated in the galleries. In some
respects these games are more pleas
ant than the ordinary outdoor meet
ings Of the summer. Everyone has
comfortable seat; there is no annoy
anoe from heat or cold, wind or rain,
1t is easy to- preserve good order and
keep the inner ring clear of intruders.
The regiment band enlivens the
evening with popular selections
and usually after the games
the floor is cleared for an
hour OF dancing. The track at first
was great annoyance to the athletes,
who tried all sorts of shoes but they
have now settled upon an ordinary
running or walking shoe with the
spikes taken out and their Office
filled by thin rubber sole, which
holds perfectly on the wooden floor,
and enables the athlete to run or
walk as fast as he could on a cinder
path of the same dimensions. Some
Of the girls are sentimentally van
pushed OF these occasions, and the
winner OF many an event has run, or
leaped, right into matrimony.
The jersey Lily shows herself Of
afternoons, when in town, at public
as imperturbably calm as
a jersey heifer. Everybody gazes at
her, but she succeeds in seeming
unconscious of the constant scrutiny,
She is today worth $4,000 in cash
and as much more in real estate.
Her investments are all in America.
Lately she has two attentive beaux
at her sides frequently. One is the
faithful Fred Gerhard, who is to
marry her as soon as she gets a di-
vorce, and the other is Sarah Bern
hardt's son Maurice, who has been
shilling her in fencing, so that she
may effectively appear in the duel
scene of a forthcoming play. Gossip
has made of Maurice a sutton for her
hand, and it was argued from the fact
If Sarah and Lilys intimacy that a
alliance was really in
,he wind, but there is nothing to sub
Itantiate such a notion. Maurice is
en or fifteen years the junior of the
beauty.
A firm in John street showed me r
he most brilliant and beautiful dia- :
nonds | have seen in long time. \
They were once the property of that 4
amous Isabella, Queen Of Spain. :
They are called the Violet Dia- d
nonds. In the store they looked +,
he steely blue white that fine dia- Z
nonds should be, but, taken to the c
DOR, they were a distinct violet, il
hey are unset at present, but used b
0 be pair of eardrops. Ia the ex- 81
ibition was a watch of ancient v
make which has a movable tableau Il
pom it. Cupid is sharpening his v
rrow at the forge of Vulcan, while 9
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